Key milestone achieved 🎯
I'm very glad to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis.
This thesis is based on a three-year implementation of a school-based intervention programme aiming at promoting healthy behaviours among adolescents with special focus on programme #sustainability
Hisham Bachouri-Muniesa
Over three years, we tailored the Sigue la Huella programme to the host school’s routines and progressively shifted leadership from the research team to school staff (and relevant policymakers).
I would like to say a huge thank you to all the co-authors, Maïté Verloigne, Lena Lhuisset, José A. Julián Clemente, Julien Bois, Javier Zaragoza & Sonia Asún Dieste, for their close collaboration throughout the process.
Hisham Bachouri-Muniesa
I'm thrilled to announce that our new paper is out! 😊 (nice pre-holiday present)
As part of my PhD and thanks to the amazing time I had at the Health Promotion UGent, in this study we worked together to develop a process evaluation of our #PhysicalActivity promotion intervention.
Thanks also to my examiners Jorge Lizandra Mora, Maria José Camacho Miñano, Gwendolijn Boonekamp.
Article links (some of them are under review or preparation):
Study 1: Study Protocol
Study 2: Diagnostic Evaluation
Study 3: Effectiveness Evaluation
Study 4: Process Evaluation
Hisham Bachouri-Muniesa
The result? High-fidelity, school-led delivery, formal institutionalisation (planning documents and implementation agreements); stronger conditions for long-term #Sustainability —with a candid look at real-world challenges (coordination time, turnover, training, family engagement).
Why it matters?: Moving beyond short-term wins, we show how participatory processes—co-adapting core components and tapering external support—can be messy at the beginning but allow to make school health promotion stick in busy, complex systems.
Hisham Bachouri-Muniesa
The thesis document is available here!
zaguan.unizar.es/record/163978
If you have any comments, doubts or something like that you can contact me directly. I'd love to hear from others working in the field !
This journey has been both challenging and rewarding, and only made possible thanks to the support of my supervisors Sonia Asun Dieste, Julien Bois, Léna Lhuisset & José Antonio Julián Clemente, the collaboration of #2PASS-4Health partners, #EFYPAF and #MEPS colleagues.
Hisham Bachouri-Muniesa
I would also like to thank @docsamantha.bsky.social and the editorial team at @healthpromint.bsky.social for their invaluable help throughout the review process.
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#HealthPromotion #ImplementationScience #CoCreation #Schools #Sustainability #HPS
